Shoe heel



Aug. 14, 119230 11,464,737 H. WEINBERGER SHOE HEEL Original Filed April 5, 1921 Patented Aug. 14, 1923.

HARRY WEINBERGER, OF NIEVi YORK, N. Y.

SHOE HEEL.

Application filed April 5, 1921, Serial No. 458,840. Renewed January 9, 1923.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HARRY lVr-iivnnncna, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, borough of Bronx, in the county of Bronx and State of New York,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Shoe Heel, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification. i

This invention relates to a class of articles adapted to be used in conjunction with tootwear.

According to present methods in practice wood heels or" forms commonly known as French styles which are mainly employed on shoes worn by women are generally diiiicult of being repaired when it is desired to replenish the usual leather top lifts with new ones when damaged by wear or to apply top lifts of rubber or like material, owing to the impracticability of driving new nails or screws into the wood having the holes of former nails or screws, because the texture of wood is such that nails or screws when driven in the holes will not properly hold and which also tends to split or chip the wood.

My invention has for its object primarily to overcome these objections by adhesively applying on the tread end of the body part of a wood heel a puncturable base, or filler or plug of material, such as leather or other appropriate material of a. texture where-by its fibres will tend to expand in a manner to 35 sutficiently close one or more holes previously made therein when nails or screws are driven in the expansible fibrous base, and which also serves to hold the nails securely by reason of the tenacity of the fibres of the material, besides tending to prevent parts of the body of the heel from splitting and chipping, thus enabling shoe heels of wood when damaged by wear to be effectually repaired without requiring entirely new heels to be applied to the shoes as well as allowing new top lifts to be effectually applied to wood heels.

With these and other objects in view, the invention will be hereinafter more fully described with reference to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views, and will then be pointed out in the claims at the end of the description.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a perspective view of one form of shoe heel embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged perspective view of the marginal member of the base-plate used in the heel.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged perspective view of the assembled parts of the base plate used in the heel, and

Fig. a is an enlarged perspective view of the filler employed in the base plate.

The heel has a body 10 made of wood which is of a style commonly known as French heels usually employed on shoes worn by women and which is formed with an enlarged upper portion 11 and a tapered tread end, as 12. When the body 10 of the heel is new, or in event of the tread end 12 being worn irregularly by use, I provide on the underside of the end 12 a puncturable base plate, as 13.

The base plate 13 may be made of leather, or layers of cloth, or a composition of compressed particles of leather and cloth or other appropriate material of a texture having fibres tending to expand to entirely close or sufiiciently close one or more nail or screw holes previously made therein when other nails or screws are driven in the fibre. I have also discovered that the texture of leather and like fibrous material tends byreason or" its tenacity to hold nails or screws against liability of accidentally loosening by the holes enlarging in sizes as well as being free of tendency to split or clip in the manner similar to the action of wood when nails or screws are driven therein. Such characteristic of the texture of wood makes its use for shoe heels very objectionable, because of being difiicult to repair, and wood heels when run-down by wear frequently require replacement with entirely new heels. A heel made according to my invention has the base plate adhesively ap lied to the tread end 12 of the body 10 or the heel by the plate being glued or suitably cemented on the tread end without using nails or screws.

The base plate 13 is preferably composed of a marginal member or flange, as 14, of substantially a U-shape of a size so that the curvature of its outer edge conforms with the curvature of the curved part of the edge of the tread end 12 of the body of the heel and so that the ends of the arms of the U terminate at the straight edge of the tread end. The flange 141 protrudes downwardly from the tread end of the body of the heel,

and within the flange is thereby provided a recess, as 15. The flange 14 may be of Wood, and in the recess 15 is glued or cemented a filler or plug 16 of leather or other material of a suitable fibrous composition. lVhen a top lift of leather or rubber or like material is applied to the heel the top lift is nailed or screwed in the usual fashion on the base plate 13 by the nails or screws being driven in the filler or plug 16. The filler or plug will then serve to prevent the body of the heel from splitting or chipping.

When it is desired to repair the heel following wear of the top lift and in event of the base-plate being also damaged by wear the base-plate as well as the top lift may be readily removed from the body of the heel to allow a new base-plate and a top lift to be applied-on the tread end 12.

' In the foregoing description I have embodied the preferred form of my invention, but I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself thereto, as I am aware that modiiications maybe made therein Without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention,

therefore I reserve to myself the right to make such changes as fairly fall within the scope thereof.

Having thus described .my invention I claim as new and desire to secure by Let ters Patent a 1. A shoe heel, comprising a body part of wood with a recess in its tread end, and a nail receiving filler of puncturable expansible fibrous material adhesively held in the recess.

2. A shoe heel, comprising a body part of wood having a flange of wood protruding from the margin of the curved portion of the tread end thereof to provide a recess in the underside of the tread end, and a nail receiving filler of leather adhesively held in the recess.

3. A shoe heel, comprising a body part of wood, and a base-plate adhesively held on the tread end of the body part, said base plate including a substantially U-shaped marginal member of wood and a leather nail receiving plug adhesively held between the arms of the marginal member.

This specification signed and witnessed.

this 1st day of April A. D. 1921.

i IIARRY l/VEINBERGER;

Witnesses:

B. EMRICH, J. FREDERICK CRYER. 

